Mobile phones carry the personal microbiome of their owners

A Taxonomic Signature of Obesity in the Microbiome? Getting to the Guts of the Matter

(2014) Mariel M. Finucane et al.   PLoS One

The Smartphone Brain Scanner: A Portable Real-Time Neuroimaging System

(2014) Arkadiusz Stopczynski et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact

(2014) James F Meadow et al.   Microbiome

Disinfection of iPad to reduce contamination with Clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2013) Lee M. Kiedrowski et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

iPads, droids, and bugs: Infection prevention for mobile handheld devices at the point of care

(2013) Mary Lou Manning et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source

(2013) J. F. Meadow et al.   INDOOR AIR

Surveillance study of bacterial contamination of the parent’s cell phone in the NICU and the effectiveness of an anti-microbial gel in reducing transmission to the hands

(2013) A C Beckstrom et al.   Journal of Perinatology

Home Life: Factors Structuring the Bacterial Diversity Found within and between Homes

(2013) Robert R. Dunn et al.   PLoS One

The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery

(2013) Melanie Swan   Big Data

Diversity, distribution and sources of bacteria in residential kitchens

(2012) Gilberto E. Flores et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

(2012)   NATURE

Human Occupancy as a Source of Indoor Airborne Bacteria

(2012) Denina Hospodsky et al.   PLoS One

A Direct PCR Approach to Accelerate Analyses of Human-Associated Microbial Communities

(2012) Gilberto E. Flores et al.   PLoS One

Mobile phone technology and hospitalized patients: a cross-sectional surveillance study of bacterial colonization, and patient opinions and behaviours

(2011) R.R. Brady et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

When did the doctors become fomites?

(2011) E. Tacconelli   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

The skin microbiome

(2011) Elizabeth A. Grice et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces

(2011) Gilberto E. Flores et al.   PLoS One

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for Emotional Self-Awareness

(2010) Margaret E Morris et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Forensic identification using skin bacterial communities

(2010) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Review of mobile communication devices as potential reservoirs of nosocomial pathogens

(2009) R.R.W. Brady et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Topographical and Temporal Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome

(2009) E. A. Grice et al.   SCIENCE

Are we aware how contaminated our mobile phones with nosocomial pathogens?

(2009) Fatma Ulger et al.   Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

(2008) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA